Moral Quotes · Page 42

To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.

— H. L. Mencken

A movement without vision would be a movement without moral foundation.

— Nelson Mandela

Some people are born losers; others acquire the knack gradually.

— W. C. Fields

... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers.

— Ronald Reagan

I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.

— Daniel Dennett

Moral cowardice at the expense of the vulnerable unborn is both wrong and pathetic.

— Russell D. Moore

Debut: the first time a young girl is seen drunk in public.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

One must never fail to pronounce moral judgment.

— Ayn Rand

I mean that it is possible to be unselfish without a moral code, sophisticated without and education, and beautiful wearing a skeleton…

— Marlene Zuk

Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.

— William Hurrell Mallock

Of course, [Adolf] Hitler was a dilettante, but he was a completely amoral person. Yes, he had no morals at all.

— Manfred Rommel

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that…

— Frederic Bastiat

There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.

— Tony Benn

I don't see, based on the evidence, economic and moral, that we can make it that much further.

— Joel C. Rosenberg

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all…

— Henry Ward Beecher

My lyrics say I have morals, I have confidence, I have weaknesses, I have strong points, that I am a human being.

— Kendrick Lamar

It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the…

— H. Rider Haggard

Regulation - which is based on force and fear - undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe…

— Alan Greenspan

It is part of the moral tragedy with which we are dealing that words like 'democracy,' 'freedom,' 'rights,' 'justice,' which have so…

— Norman Angell

Words do not necessarily make us moral. And there have been presidents before who have stumbled over syntax and looked foolish when…

— Howard Jacobson

“And now dear little children, who may this story read, To idle, silly flattering words, I pray you ne'er give heed: Unto…

— Mary Howitt

The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species…

— Thomas Carlyle

The young readers I have interacted with carry old concerns repackaged in the skin of a new generation: puzzlement over continuous national…

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version…

— Walter Lippmann

[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after…

— Aristotle

I'm with Milton and the Rolling Stones: I don't find the Devil an unsympathetic character. But in any case, my fiction is…

— Glen Duncan

... For all our alarm, it is clear that the religious right is responding to a real hunger in our society... a…

— Norman Lear

Let us labor for the security of free thought, free speech, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and equal rights and privileges for…

— Ulysses S. Grant

You have countries that have lived beyond their means, with bloated governments, huge trade deficits, and people living off the government. Then…

— Peter Schiff

It's a moral imperative, it's an economic imperative, and it is a security imperative. For we've seen how spikes in food prices…

— Barack Obama

Killing for pleasure is wrong and should be banned. Fox hunting, stag hunting and hare coursing are moral issues. It is time…

— Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison

“I am convinced that fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world,…

— George Bernard Shaw

Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.

— Charles R. Swindoll

You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?

— Joel Coen

Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.

— Alphonse Karr

Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals.

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Love is nothing less than a lesson ; and its moral is nothing more than WHY !

— Chandan Ray

The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.

— Alexander Woollcott

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

— Anonymous